Bible Cross References
defiled
Genesis 3:17
And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.
Genesis 3:18
It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.
Genesis 6:11-13
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but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.
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God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.
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God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds.
Leviticus 18:24-28
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Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the LORD is driving out so that you can go in.
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Their actions made the land unclean, and so the LORD is punishing the land and making it reject the people who lived there.
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They did all these disgusting things and made the land unclean, but you must not do them. All of you, whether Israelites or foreigners living with you, must keep the LORD's laws and commands,
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(SEE 18:26)
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and then the land will not reject you, as it rejected the pagans who lived there before you.
Leviticus 20:22
The LORD said, "Keep all my laws and commands, so that you will not be rejected by the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you.
Numbers 35:33
If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.
Numbers 35:34
Do not defile the land where you are living, because I am the LORD and I live among the people of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:9
Manasseh led the people of Judah to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced.
Psalm 106:36-39
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God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.
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They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
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They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
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They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
Jeremiah 3:1
The LORD says, "If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!
Jeremiah 3:2
Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.
Ezekiel 7:20-24
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Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why the LORD has made their wealth repulsive to them.
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"I will let foreigners rob them," says the LORD, "and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.
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I will not interfere when my treasured Temple is profaned, when robbers break into it and defile it.
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"Everything is in confusion ---the land is full of murders and the cities are full of violence.
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I will bring the most evil nations here and let them have your homes. Your strongest men will lose their confidence when I let the nations profane the places where you worship.
Ezekiel 22:24-31
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"Mortal man," he said, "tell the Israelites that their land is unholy, and so I am punishing it in my anger.
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The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.
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The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me.
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The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.
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The prophets have hidden these sins like workers covering a wall with whitewash. They see false visions and make false predictions. They claim to speak the word of the Sovereign LORD, but I, the LORD, have not spoken to them.
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The wealthy cheat and rob. They mistreat the poor and take advantage of foreigners.
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I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.
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So I will turn my anger loose on them, and like a fire I will destroy them for what they have done." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Micah 2:10
Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.
Romans 8:20
For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope
Romans 8:21
that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.
because
Isaiah 1:2-5
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The LORD said, "Earth and sky, listen to what I am saying! The children I brought up have rebelled against me.
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Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all."
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You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the LORD, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.
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Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.
Isaiah 50:1
The LORD says, "Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.
Isaiah 59:1-3
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Don't think that the LORD is too weak to save you or too deaf to hear your call for help!
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It is because of your sins that he doesn't hear you. It is your sins that separate you from God when you try to worship him.
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You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.
Isaiah 59:12-15
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" LORD, our crimes against you are many. Our sins accuse us. We are well aware of them all.
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We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.
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Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there.
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There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime." The LORD has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.
Deuteronomy 32:15
"The LORD's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.
Deuteronomy 32:20
'I will no longer help them,' he said; 'then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.
2 Kings 17:7-23
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Samaria fell because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the king of Egypt and had led them out of Egypt. They worshiped other gods,
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followed the customs of the people whom the LORD had driven out as his people advanced, and adopted customs introduced by the kings of Israel.
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The Israelites did things that the LORD their God disapproved of. They built pagan places of worship in all their towns, from the smallest village to the largest city.
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On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,
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and they burned incense on all the pagan altars, following the practice of the people whom the LORD had driven out of the land. They aroused the LORD's anger with all their wicked deeds
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and disobeyed the LORD's command not to worship idols.
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The LORD had sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: "Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors and which I handed on to you through my servants the prophets."
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But they would not obey; they were stubborn like their ancestors, who had not trusted in the LORD their God.
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They refused to obey his instructions, they did not keep the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and they disregarded his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves, and they followed the customs of the surrounding nations, disobeying the LORD's command not to imitate them.
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They broke all the laws of the LORD their God and made two metal bull-calves to worship; they also made an image of the goddess Asherah, worshiped the stars, and served the god Baal.
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters as burnt offerings to pagan gods; they consulted mediums and fortunetellers, and they devoted themselves completely to doing what is wrong in the LORD's sight, and so aroused his anger.
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The LORD was angry with the Israelites and banished them from his sight, leaving only the kingdom of Judah.
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But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the LORD their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
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The LORD rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.
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After the LORD had separated Israel from Judah, the Israelites made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam caused them to abandon the LORD and led them into terrible sins.
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They followed Jeroboam and continued to practice all the sins he had committed,
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until at last the LORD banished them from his sight, as he had warned through his servants the prophets that he would do. So the people of Israel were taken into exile to Assyria, where they still live.
2 Kings 22:13-17
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"Go and consult the LORD for me and for all the people of Judah about the teachings of this book. The LORD is angry with us because our ancestors have not done what this book says must be done."
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Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to consult a woman named Huldah, a prophet who lived in the newer part of Jerusalem. (Her husband Shallum, the son of Tikvah and grandson of Harhas, was in charge of the Temple robes.) They described to her what had happened,
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and she told them to go back to the king and give him
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the following message from the LORD: "I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people, as written in the book that the king has read.
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They have rejected me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and so have stirred up my anger by all they have done. My anger is aroused against Jerusalem, and it will not die down.
2 Kings 23:26
But the LORD's fierce anger had been aroused against Judah by what King Manasseh had done, and even now it did not die down.
2 Kings 23:27
The LORD said, "I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel: I will banish the people of Judah from my sight, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and the Temple, the place I said was where I should be worshiped."
Ezra 9:6
I said, "O God, I am too ashamed to raise my head in your presence. Our sins pile up higher than our heads; they reach as high as the heavens.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our ancestors until now, we, your people, have sinned greatly. Because of our sins we, our kings, and our priests have fallen into the hands of foreign kings, and we have been slaughtered, robbed, and carried away as prisoners. We have been totally disgraced, as we still are today.
Ezekiel 20:13
But even in the desert they defied me. They broke my laws and rejected my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They completely profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to destroy them.
Ezekiel 20:24
I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.
Daniel 9:5
"We have sinned, we have been evil, we have done wrong. We have rejected what you commanded us to do and have turned away from what you showed us was right.
Daniel 9:10
We did not listen to you, O LORD our God, when you told us to live according to the laws which you gave us through your servants the prophets.
changed
Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak against the Supreme God and oppress God's people. He will try to change their religious laws and festivals, and God's people will be under his power for three and a half years.
Mark 7:7-9
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It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!'
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"You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."
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And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
Luke 1:6
They both lived good lives in God's sight and obeyed fully all the Lord's laws and commands.
Hebrews 9:1
The first covenant had rules for worship and a place made for worship as well.
broken
Psalm 55:5
I am gripped by fear and trembling; I am overcome with horror.
Genesis 17:13
Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.
Genesis 17:14
Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me."
2 Samuel 23:5
And that is how God will bless my descendants, because he has made an eternal covenant with me, an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire; that will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about.
Psalm 105:10
The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.
Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask the way to Zion and then go in that direction. They will make an eternal covenant with me and never break it.
Ezekiel 37:26
I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security forever. I will establish them and increase their population, and will see to it that my Temple stands forever in their land.
Hebrews 13:20
God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.